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In West Africa, Trudeau soft peddles his gvmt’s strident LGBT advocacy

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a two-day visit to the impoverished West African nation of Liberia this week by treading delicately around his government’s frank encouragement of homosexual and transgender status in Canada and internationally. Global Affairs Canada ’s website offers more than 130 links to projects around the world from Kashish to Manila and Dominica with which it is promoting homosexuality, but Trudeau shied from touting the issue in the heart of a region that is strongly opposed to that agenda. Yet he is signalling that he will advocate “ LGBT rights” in an address Saturday morning in Madagascar when speaking to La Francophonie , a consortium of the world’s nations with close ties to French language and culture. Trudeau came to Liberia to talk about the $11.5 million his government was spreading across West Africa over the next five years to advance the economic and social status of women. He encouraged the development of agriculture and c

Liberian President remains firm: no legalization of homosexual acts

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf poses for a photo in the Pentagon Oct. 24, 2007, before sitting down to substantive, bilateral security discussions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROME, March 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In an interview with the UK Guardian newspaper yesterday, the president of Liberia , Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , said that the question of legalization of homosexual acts is off the table, despite criticism and international pressure. “We like ourselves just the way we are,” she said. “We’ve got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve,” President Johnson Sirleaf added. The interview was being conducted jointly with Tony Blair , former UK Prime Minister and now head of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a group that assists African governments meet their economic and social reform goals. The group is currently working in Rwanda, Sierra Leone , Liberia and Guinea to help achieve targets in public services, rural